Lugones, Munóz, and the Radical Potential of (Dis)identificatory Feminist Love for "World"-Making Beyond the Academe

Abstract

Abstract:In this article I place María Lugones's concept of "world"-travelling in conversation with José Esteban Munóz's disidentification to posit a theory of "world"-travelling as facilitating a disidentificatory practice women of color use in the academe. Herein I propose the possibility of future-making through a praxis that surpasses survival, by traveling between these two theoretical frames, with the purpose of moving with travelling to envisioning and creating new "worlds" within and beyond the academe. I combine these two theories—queer theory and critical transnational feminism—to articulate from a position of (un)ease the radical potential of loving those (un)like us, and travelling with them in between "worlds." In this essay I seek to advance a radical praxis of feminist loving and its possibilities to create new "worlds."